Install on Amazon EC2
Overview
This page describes how to create an Aerospike Community Database as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Use this information for development with in-memory storage only. For deployment planning for AWS, refer to Aerospike Capacity Planning documentation.
Get the Aerospike AMI
You can either use the Aerospike Enterprise Edition AMI on the AWS Marketplace or prepare your own AMI.
Aerospike on AWS Marketplace
In your browser, go to Aerospike Database on AWS Marketplace.
Click Continue on that page. You are taken to the Launch on EC2 page.
Click Manual Launch tab. Then click Launch with EC2 console for the region you want to use.
Prepare your own AMI
Launch an OS of your choice, then install Aerospike according to the OS you've chosen. For best performance and compatibility, we recommend using Database 6.4 and later with Amazon Linux 2023.
Optionally install the Aerospike Monitoring Stack.
Set the Aerospike service to start on boot.
- RHEL:
chkconfig aerospike on; chkconfig amc on - Debian/Ubuntu:
update-rc.d aerospike defaults; update-rc.d amc defaults - SystemD:
systemctl enable aerospike; systemctl enable amc
- After you've configured your Namespace and other configuration parameters, create your AMI.
Instance type
The instance type depends on your RAM requirements for data storage and desired throughput. Aerospike recommends the r3.2xlarge instance, which is suitable for many installations.
For more details about instance types, see Amazon EC2 capacity planning.
Virtual Private Cloud (Networking)
Aerospike recommends deploying to an Amazon VPC. For more information, see How Amazon VPC works.
Security group
In your security group, open the following ports for Aerospike communication.
| Protocol | Port | Description |
|---|---|---|
| TCP | 22 | SSH port for logging into the instance. |
| TCP | 3000-3003 | Aerospike ports for clients and other servers to communicate with this instance. |
Launch
Launch your instance and ssh to it.
An in-memory test namespace is configured by default. To learn about adding storage devices, configuring a cluster, and tuning your configuration to your hardware, see Configure Aerospike Database.
Start Aerospike
[ec2-user@ip-xxx-xx-x-xxx ~]$ sudo service aerospike start
Starting and checking aerospike: asd (pid 8166) is running...
[ OK ]
Clustering Aerospike
Multicast traffic is not permitted on AWS. You must form a cluster using Aerospike's heartbeat protocols. For more information, see Mesh (unicast) heartbeat.
Connect to each instance using ssh and configure mesh networking on the private IP address for each node.
For more information, see Aerospike on Amazon EC2.